 courtly travelers and political scholars throughout the flanaess must make careful study of the titles honorifics and heirarchies of nobility used in the many royal courts and noble houses throughout to aid those who move among such circles or the simply curious the following brief primer on royalty nobility titles and honorifics is presented travelers are strongly encourages to investigate local customs and regulations before addressing local officials or nobles as mistakes can lead to embarassment loss of standing or worse titles are listed in descending order of importance where several co-equal titles are recognizes that common to the great kingdom and nyrond or furyondy will be given first with others in parenthesis thereafter it must be noted that this precedence might be disputed in the baklunish lands and courts but ambassadors to various eastern realms have accepted it as true and correct protocol honorific address forms are shown in the second column as most titles have distinct additional honorifics of their own these additional honorifics follow the form of the preeminent titles common to the above three named nations the listed honorifics are by no means complete and full and are acceptable address forms only until the holder holder's true royal noble knightly or positional title and honorifics are properly conveyed to the petitioner class wikitable - title honorific - overking emperor rowspan 2 imperial majesty royal majesty - padishah kha-khan - king rhelt rowspan 2 majesty - master sultan caliph pasha - duke palatine grand duke prince palatine theocrat archcleric rowspan 2 royal highness - beygraf tarkhan shah orakhon ilkhan - herzog duke faastal prince count palatine ambassador rowspan 2 highness - voormann censor freeholder prelate hetman heirarch ataman - margrave marquis earl count archbaron plar rowspan 2 noble grace lordly grace - grandee despotrix khan amir commandant altmeister - szek viscount baron lord mayor magistar rowspan 2 lordship - emissary - knight commander mayor rowspan 2 honor worship - chief laird - knight rowspan 2 worthy sir - spokesman as mentioned above certain realms have more detailed systems of social precedence; the below is the example of such within the kingdoms of furyondy keoland and the archclericy of veluna and surrounding civilized states class wikitable - title honorific - duke highness or noble grace - prince grace - margrave or marquis nobility - earl graf count or plar eminence - viscount noble lordship - baron prominence - lord mayor lordship - knight commander most honorable sir - knight banneret right honorable sir - mayor honor - knight companion most worthy sir - knight bachelor worthy sir - knight sir - elder honorable master - gentlemen master - esquire squire - yeoman socman category lists 